Adobe CS6 Basic Menu Options

Adobe CS6 gives you menu options to open, close, and save your files. CS6 menu options also enable you to import and export documents and undo changes, in addition to other basic commands. This table shows common Adobe CS6 options and what they do:

Option

What You Can Do with It

New

Create a new document in the native file format.

Open

Open a dialog box where you can choose a (supported) file on
your hard drive or a disk to open.

Close

Close the current document; if you have unsaved changes, you’re
prompted to save those changes first.

Save

Save the changes you’ve made to the current document.

Save As

Save a new copy of the current document.

Place or Import

Import a file, such as an image file or a sound file, into the
current document.

Export

Export the current data to a specified file format. You can
sometimes select several different kinds of file formats for saving
the current data.

Copy

Copy the selected data to the computer’s Clipboard.

Paste

Paste the data from the Clipboard into the current
document.

Undo

Undo the most recent operation you did in the program.

Redo

Repeat the steps you applied the Undo command to.

Zoom In

Magnify the document so that you can view and edit the contents
closely.

Zoom Out

Scale the view smaller so that you can see more of the document
at a time.

Help

Open the Help documentation for the current program.

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